It is people who decide whether their relationships constitute a family.... Not everyone shares the pope's point of view.

People were turning inward, to home, family and relationships again.

Tristan is full of rage at the Irish for taking his family.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.